Saurav Paul, who has worked at St. Jude Medical for the past nine years, will become the director of a University of Minnesota program that develops and tests ideas for new medical devices. A St. Jude inventor will become the new director of the University of Minnesota’s Medical Devices Center Innovation Fellows Program. The U said Tuesday that Saurav Paul—who’s been with Little Canada-based St. Jude for nine years and has more than 100 patent publications—will replace Founding Director Marie Johnson, who left the position in the spring to pursue other opportunities. He’ll begin his new role on August 15.